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For the first time, the Austrian Robotics Workshop takes place on May 7th and 8th in Klagenfurt. This yearly event brings together researchers from industry and academia from Austria and neighboring countries to discuss current developments in robotics.

The 2015 edition of the workshop series will be held at the Alpen-Adria Universität Klagenfurt (AAU) on 7th and 8th of May 2015. The program will include two invited talks, oral presentations as well as robot and industry presentations and demonstrations.
The organizers envision strengthening the cooperation between academia and industry. Therefore, contributions and participation from industry are encouraged!

We are proud to announce, that the research team of the Institute of Applied Informatics (Intelligent Systems and Business Informatics) won the Best Paper Award at the 25th International Workshop on Principles of Diagnosis (DX 2014) in Graz.

The communication challenges experienced in an aerial network are unique due to its 3D nature and high mobility of the devices. There is a need to investigate the implementation of existing wireless technologies and protocols to see if they fulfill the demands posed by aerial network applications. In a recent work, we focused on deployment of standard WLAN technology for different network setups. It was experienced that certain setups not only offer network range extension, but also much lower variance in throughput. It was also seen that the standard routing protocol for 802.11s mesh lacks vastly in its implementation when applied to multihop aerial networks. Thus, it was established that there is a need to evaluate alternative mesh routing protocols that cater for aerial communication network demands.

At the 35th international Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2013), held from May, 18th – 26th, 2013, in San Francisco, Prof. Martin Pinzger, head of the Software Engineering Group at Institute of Informatics Systems, received the prestigious ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award for the paper „Data Clone Detection and Visualization in Spreadsheets„. The paper is joint work with Felienne Hermans, Ben Sedee, and Arie van Deursen from the Delft University of Technology. Congratulations!

The presentation will be based on the book „Recommender Systems – An Introduction“ that is co-authored by the tutorial presentaers and was published by Cambridge Universty Press in 2012. (Amazon.com, Cambridge University Press Online store).

Previous instances of the tutorial have been given at IJCAI 2011, ACM HT, 2011 and SAC 2012. Further information and resources can be found at http://recommenderbook.net/.

Background

Recommender systems help users navigating through large product assortments, making decisions in e-commerce scenarios and overcome information overload. Probably the most prominent example is the book recommendation service of Amazon.com. Their system takes the behavior, opinions and tastes of a large community of users into account and thus constitutes a social or collaborative recommendation approach. In contrast, content-based approaches rely on product features and textual item descriptions; knowledge-based algorithms, finally, generate item recommendations based on explicit knowledge models from the domain. Technically, recommender systems have their roots in different fields such as information retrieval, text classification, machine learning and decision support systems. The tutorial will offer an introduction to the various basic strategies and methods for building recommender systems and will discuss the different known approaches and how the effectiveness of such systems can be determined.